Night Is Not Eternal

"For seven years, Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang has followed activist Rosa María Payá in her fight against the Cuban communist regime. Rosa follows in the footsteps of her father Oswaldo Payá, an opposition democrat and five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Although the two women share the idea of a democratic world, after their emigration to America they realise that their ideals diverge. While Nanfu observes in American capitalism a parallel to Chinese communism, Rosa becomes a supporter of the Republican effort to eradicate the left and sees hope for her country in the election of Donald Trump. On a personal and political level, the documentary thus shows the universality but also the ambivalence of the word democracy."